RefNo | CB/1/1/83 |
AltRefNo | BLA.B.10 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from Sir Joseph Banks, Revesby Abbey to Charles Blagden, Physician to the Army at Plymouth |
Date | 28 September 1782 |
Description | Has no news as he is in the country - Broussonet has arrived at Paris and has written a very good satirical account of the Paris literary scene - discusses experiments with oil and lamp black - discusses Yeat's death - discusses publication by De Lalande on Herschel's star and royal pensions. |
Extent | 1 sheet |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | Item 44, The Banks Letters, A Calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum... London, 1958. |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |